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Webster 1913 Edition


Kauri

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Ka′u-ri

,
Noun.
[Native name.]
(Bot.)
A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand
Agathis australis
, or
Dammara australis
), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of
dammar resin
.
[Written also
kaudi
,
kaury
,
cowdie
, and
cowrie
.]